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<h1 class="topictitle1">Manually Performing Backup</h1>
<div><p>If you want to perform a backup immediately, you can manually perform the backup.</p>
<div class="section"><h4 class="sectiontitle">Context</h4><ul><li>During manual backup, parameters (except <span class="uicontrol"><b><span><strong>Automatic Retry</strong></span></b></span>) defined in the SLA are applied to the manual backup job.</li><li>Copies generated by manual backup are retained for the duration defined in the SLA.<p>If the protection policy selected during manual backup is not defined in the SLA, the generated backup copy is retained permanently. If full backup is not defined in the SLA but selected during manual backup, the copies generated by the manual full backup are retained permanently.</p>
</li><li>If a replication or archive policy has been defined in the SLA, the system will perform replication or archiving once based on the SLA when you perform manual backup.</li></ul>
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<div class="section"><h4 class="sectiontitle">Precautions</h4><ul id="EN-US_TOPIC_0000001792555168__en-us_topic_0000001839194517_ul112694580218"><li id="EN-US_TOPIC_0000001792555168__en-us_topic_0000001839194517_li0542152665720">Ensure that the production storage has reserved snapshot space for backup. Reserved snapshot space = Data volume of the source LUN x Percentage of data changes in the backup period. By default, you are advised to reserve 20% of the source LUN capacity for creating snapshots.</li><li id="EN-US_TOPIC_0000001792555168__en-us_topic_0000001839194517_li31561923235">To ensure data consistency during FlexVolume restoration, you can configure <span class="uicontrol" id="EN-US_TOPIC_0000001792555168__en-us_topic_0000001839194517_uicontrol14802202710489"><b>Script to Run Before Backup</b></span> and back up volumes of the FlexVolume type in the pod.</li></ul>
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<div class="section"><h4 class="sectiontitle">Procedure</h4><ol><li><span>Choose <span class="uicontrol" id="EN-US_TOPIC_0000001792555168__en-us_topic_0000001839274437_en-us_topic_0000001839142377_uicontrol84751741193812"><b><span id="EN-US_TOPIC_0000001792555168__en-us_topic_0000001839274437_en-us_topic_0000001839142377_text194759416387"><strong>Protection</strong></span> &gt; Containers &gt; Kubernetes FlexVolume</b></span>.</span></li><li><span>Click the <span class="uicontrol"><b><span><strong>Namespace</strong></span></b></span> or <span class="uicontrol"><b><span><strong>StatefulSet</strong></span></b></span> tab based on the type of the data to be backed up.</span><p><div class="note"><img src="public_sys-resources/note_3.0-en-us.png"><span class="notetitle"> </span><div class="notebody"><p>When choosing <span class="uicontrol"><b><span><strong>Namespace</strong></span></b></span> for backup, only StatefulSets that have the same SLA as the namespace are backed up.</p>
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</p></li><li><span>Click <span class="uicontrol"><b><span><strong>More</strong></span> &gt; <span><strong>Manual Backup</strong></span></b></span> on the right area of the namespace or StatefulSet to be backed up.</span><p><div class="note"><img src="public_sys-resources/note_3.0-en-us.png"><span class="notetitle"> </span><div class="notebody"><p id="EN-US_TOPIC_0000001792555168__en-us_topic_0000001792503838_p870125314544">You can select multiple resources to perform manual backup in batches. Select multiple resources and choose <span class="uicontrol" id="EN-US_TOPIC_0000001792555168__en-us_topic_0000001792503838_uicontrol14182155715711"><b><span id="EN-US_TOPIC_0000001792555168__en-us_topic_0000001792503838_text662114113158"><strong>More</strong></span> &gt; <span id="EN-US_TOPIC_0000001792555168__en-us_topic_0000001792503838_text1068159191519"><strong>Manual Backup</strong></span></b></span> in the upper left corner of the page.</p>
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</p></li><li><span>Set the name of the copy generated through manual backup.</span><p><p>If this parameter is left empty, the system sets the name to <strong>backup_</strong><em>Timestamp</em> by default.</p>
</p></li><li><span>Select a protection policy, which can be full backup or forever incremental backup (synthetic full backup).</span></li><li><span>Click <span class="uicontrol"><b><span><strong>OK</strong></span></b></span>.</span></li></ol>
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